The oracles of the Disserters : containing forty five relations of pretended judgments, prodigies, and apparitions, in behalf of the Non-Conformists; in opposition to the Establish'd Church. Part I. / Publish'd in order to make the Church of England as odious in the eyes of the vulgar, as popery. And re-printed with seasonable remarks. By an impartial hand [i.e. John Brydall].

  • Brydall, John, 1635?-
Date:
1707
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Credit: The oracles of the Disserters : containing forty five relations of pretended judgments, prodigies, and apparitions, in behalf of the Non-Conformists; in opposition to the Establish'd Church. Part I. / Publish'd in order to make the Church of England as odious in the eyes of the vulgar, as popery. And re-printed with seasonable remarks. By an impartial hand [i.e. John Brydall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ly for. Righteoufnefs lake, it was not judged fafe for him to abide in the Town anylonger, whereupon he relolved fuddeniy to remove to feme o- ther place ; and in order thereunto. Wagons were provided to carry away his Goods, which one Mr. Moullins (an Inhabitant of the faid Town of Dun- head, and a great Enemy to Mr. Ince) feeing, the night before Mr. luce*s de¬ parture, exprefs’d a great deal of Joy at it, and did openly (peak words to this effect; To morrow when this Ince goes away, I will keep the Me tr left day that ever I kept at Dunhead : But when the morrow came, the Lord by a. fad hand of Providence quite changed the Scene, and made him keep one of the mofc forrowfui days he ever kept in his whole Life before ; for that day going forth in rhe morning with his Cart, his Foot dipt, and falling down, he was not able fuddeniy to recover himfelf, and the Wheel of the Cart went over his Leg, and bruifed it very forely, fo that he lay all that day in extream pain and dolor ; at lad it Gangren’d, and after two or three days extremity of Torment, he miferably ended his Life. This alfo is publickiy known to be a certain Truth, and no doubt made of it by any that liv'd thereabouts* R E M A R K S. Here are three other Stories much of the fame Stamp, as relating altoge¬ ther to the Punifhment of perlons accufed of Reviling and Perfecuting Non- conformift Afiniflers. The firft tells us of a Man dying fuddeniy, only for Threatning a Minifter with the Law, if he did not Conform ; And in rhe fecond, another perfon happening to fall very ill, and being feiz’d with Tor¬ turing pains ( perhaps the Collide ) and dying loon after, his Death muft be attributed to his having been a Revder and Perfecutor of Non conforming Minifters and People. Strange and vain Suppositions/ For a Sett of People to make themfelves thus, as it were, the mo ft intimate and familiar Fa- vourites of God Almighty, as to engage him upon the leaft Occafion in their Quarrel, which, as it leerns, can t be reveng’d with lefs than the Death or the pretended Offenders. If you are not fully fatisfy d with the Truth of it, they give you another Inftance of it in the Third, Numb. 13. Here a cer¬ tain Perfon Rejoycing only at the Departure of faithful Minifter ( his Ene¬ my) and telling his Friends, that he would be merry that Day when he left the Place, had the Misfortune the fame day to have his Leg broken by a Cart-Wheel running over it; I can’t for my Life fee what Coherency there is betwixt an Accident of this Nature, jmd the being an Enemy of a Non- conformift Minifter, and confequeatfy being glad at his Departure; unlefs they will infill upon the Cir earn fiances of the Time, it happening the fame day : But fince by tjreNatural Courfe of things, our perfons are at all times expofed to a thoujfand Cafualties, why might not fuch an Accident befall a Perfon as well .bn that, as on another day, without haying rcout fe to the fad hand of Providence; which, as it is moll certainly hid from Humane Eyes, fo I can’t but once more admire at the Forwardnefs of the Compilers of thefe Relations, for having recourfe to it upon all Occafions, to ferve their own Turn, without the leaftRegard tothofe of another Perfwafton. The Death of the laft mentioned Perfon, as it proceeded from the Gangrening of the affe&ed Part, fo it may perhaps be attributed to the Neglefl or Unskii- fulnefs of liis Country Surgeon \ And tho’ I won’t deny but that God infli£l$ frequently his Temporal Punijhments upon the Wicked by Natural Means; yet I can’t agree with them in the Application, as if every one was at Liberty to ... v b ' Judge